#subtlety

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lucid jackal
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theres no other place to really use cloak thats useful

edgy zenith
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vanishing the first root breaks?

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not using vanish in opener?

lucid jackal
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yeh

edgy zenith
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hmm

lucid jackal
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realistically u probs could just break it with damage since its still the opener but

tepid trellis
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can also just kill first

lucid jackal
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vanish doesn't do much

edgy zenith
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we pulled it a couple times and seems like the first set just died

tepid trellis
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so much dmg going

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they insta die

edgy zenith
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ye

lucid jackal
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sure then yeh

edgy zenith
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should only be 3 root sets, yeah?

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so kill > cloak > something (gnome/freedom)

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err, third roots get blasted

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by our CDs

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no?

lucid jackal
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Yeh

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3rd dies

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4th u vanish

edgy zenith
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for vanish

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do you have to vanish before you get root debuff

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or

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like circles

lucid jackal
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U can technically do it before but just do it as u get rooted

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More consistent

edgy zenith
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so right before you actually get rooted, vanish

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can I vanish strike then root timing expires

lucid jackal
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U can but u can also just do it after u get rooted

edgy zenith
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or do I have to be "stealthed" while the circle goes off

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oh

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it removes the root

lucid jackal
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Vanish cleanses roots and also grants an immunity to roots for a few seconds

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It's either 1 or 3

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Closer to 1 I think

edgy zenith
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huh

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never knew

lucid jackal
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I've always done it after getting rooted so

edgy zenith
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mini spiders in p3, do they normally die fast af? or do I need to pad

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guild by guild basis?

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or normally fast

pliant topaz
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it legit dies, cloack, dies

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then intermission

alpine wraith
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you need to get rooted before vanishing yes

upbeat escarp
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Is DS a better angle now for Ansurek you guys think?

alpine wraith
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depends on what you want the ST dmg can be higher

wooden light
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!wa

wicked joltBOT
cursive vapor
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is it really worth to use cold blood with second tec? or just a small difference? cause if its big difference ima delete the macro

alpine wraith
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not much of a diff

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it is more of a thing in trickster too because of flawless

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than on deathstalker

sly shore
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I just changed my bind that was SnD to Solo SecTech

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so now I have both with and without CB bound

alpine wraith
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i always had 2 just in case

cursive vapor
tawny river
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Feint does work on wrest. Here’s me getting 50+% DR on first wrest

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@edgy zenith

alpine wraith
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yea feint has always worked on wrest

fathom gazelle
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
brisk onyx
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Is range of RS the same as IC?

alpine wraith
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it is lower

brisk onyx
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No wonder I always feel that the range of RS is very small. I thought it was my illusion.

tribal blade
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it used to be really nice with acro, now it's awful

toxic knoll
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
bleak vessel
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!sheet

wicked joltBOT
mint swift
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How’s sub in M+ and raid
Both dps wise and feel wise atm

tribal blade
mint swift
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Better than what?

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Or just better than before

tribal blade
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better than before the anniversary rework

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raid dps wise sub is up there

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with the big boys

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and M+ sub is doing much, much better

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not a troll spec to play in keys anymore

mint swift
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Fair

haughty mural
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prophet do you still play trickster or full DS now ?

mint swift
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I’m still too stupid to play it in M+ I feel

tribal blade
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and progging court atm so i'm playing trickster for that

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right now i'm trying out playing DS with tea instead of CB

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in keys

mint swift
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Like rn I play Assa, 3K rating

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Sub could be fun to try but isn’t it like

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Uber difficult

cursive vapor
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just practice and learning

tribal blade
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it's not a simple spec for sure, but it's nowhere near as hard as before when we were playing dust

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the big curve i can forsee fucking people up who are newer to sub and want to use it for keys is the aoe rotation

cursive vapor
tribal blade
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because sub right now has 3 different aoe rotations across both hero talent trees

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i main sub and it still throws me off sometimes swapping between the trees

mint swift
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Fair

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I think if I get CD manegment it should be fine

haughty mural
mint swift
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But the problem is I’m geared for Assa and play Assa

haughty mural
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my first ds trys after the patch were horrible

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so went back to trickster

tribal blade
haughty mural
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but planning to try ds again some time this week

tribal blade
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on higher keys you can have dead gcds just fine and pump

haughty mural
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fair point

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i think kush just did a +16 siege with tea earlier iirc

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but he is a different animal anyway (positive way)

tribal blade
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he's playing DS tea and DB yeah

haughty mural
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oh even DB

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hmm .. dunno if i wanna play w/o rotten and third sod right now tbh

tribal blade
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it does a lot more aoe

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but it feels like ass to play honestly

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maybe i'll give it a try again

haughty mural
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oh it does more for sure

vale pine
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i like trickster in general more

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even if its more finicky

tribal blade
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i think trickster fits sub really well

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i just wish it didn't have 2 different aoe rotations atm

haughty mural
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i think i will like trickster more too - but i've yet to play good with "new" ds in a key to really tell

haughty mural
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or to get more people in here

tribal blade
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the big issue i've had is i'm not doing high keys anymore, so trying to test DS and trickster with the buffs in 10s with groups doing wack stuff

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is hard

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tanks doing incredibly dumb things compared to 14-15s haha

tribal blade
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maybe it's just me

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the way they could smooth out trickster is make it so unseen blade can proc off storm

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not just so you don't have to cast stab in aoe, but also you can storm in high target counts in dance and be able to proc coup and spread FW

haughty mural
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yea you are not wrong

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its trying to merge both styles together right now

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the bp and the cleave style

crisp cradle
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!sheet

wicked joltBOT
tribal blade
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i can imagine it's a lot for newer sub players to take in

haughty mural
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agreed

mint swift
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I could try some sub for fun

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Is the base rota easy :)

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I played it at the start of the expac

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Rn I’m mass stacked in crit and mast with a bit of haste

alpine wraith
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trickster is easier

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you can ignore the bp thingies at the beginning

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and just catch them later

odd knoll
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Is there any minimum haste that sub requires to play?

alpine wraith
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the less the better

mint swift
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KK

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I remember it being like

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You start in stealth and SS
You use SS in aoe, if no stealth Shuriken storm. Evic as your aoe finisher. SD is like
Use flag before it
SB SD and SoD at once before idk
Was it SS then CB + ST?
I barely remember

tribal blade
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dance>strike>sectec

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and now you cast blades after sectec

mint swift
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Oh really?

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That’s so strange

plush roost
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Its a pretty set CD usage so it won't take long to learn

mint swift
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Why?

mint swift
plush roost
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Blades doesn't work on sec tec clones, +premed value +its 16 seconds now

mint swift
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Fair

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Do you just SoD with ever SD now

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With double charge

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And you still flag before SD I assume

alpine wraith
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i have a clear cut thingy in my sheet but it is also in the general guides i think

tribal blade
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you only ever dance with sod

alpine wraith
plush roost
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Yeah its pmuch build to 6-7cp, flag, finisher, dance+sod, ss,.sectec, blades, standard rotation

mint swift
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An ok

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That actually sounds kinda easier than Assa?

alpine wraith
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best one is you cant be parried as trickster

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you can eat the face of the boss

mint swift
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Nice nice

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So outside of your CDs
You just shurken storm into Evi

For CDs
You build to 5+
Flag, into Evic
Stealth and SoD
SS
CB and ST then just
Mash SS into Evic if CP +5

Do we still use rupture

plush roost
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Does Fazed anti-parry still work for all raiders? Or is it fixed to just be the Rogue

alpine wraith
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still wors as far as i know

plush roost
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Pog

mint swift
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I remember rupture as sub being like eh compared to Assa

alpine wraith
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sub rupture is quite stronger than assa

plush roost
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In m+ you spread ruptures, but also at 5+ targets BP is better

alpine wraith
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but it has almost no mechanics to it

plush roost
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Over evis

mint swift
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Ok so

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Opener you SD and SS into Evic? Or do you just spread ruptures to 5 targets

plush roost
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Depends on key level and pull but i like to tornado and spread ruptures then go into cds once the pull is gathered

mint swift
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Fair

plush roost
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Dont wanna waste too much time spreading ruptures

mint swift
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Oh we run tornado again?

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Based

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True true

plush roost
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Optional, some do, some run Veiltouched

mint swift
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So tornado and every hit you rutupre, sounds good

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Ah KK

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No finality anymore? :0

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Also tricks over BJ?

plush roost
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Not unless you're playing DS+Brew

mint swift
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Ahh ok

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I might try this later at home :)

plush roost
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Some people dont even run that side of the tree lol

mint swift
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I still need to do some BM keys

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Tbh it could be fun to go for relm highest sub

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Nobody plays sub in my realm

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Sorta dead relm

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Plus even if my stats aren’t perfect I’m still p high ilevel

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Yea top sub in my realm is 2.7

slim field
alpine wraith
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it is in my profile i think

slim field
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cheers mate

mint swift
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I might try some 10s as sub later, if I do I’ll post how it goes

tribal blade
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oh my god interrupted by an ad right as kush started talking about how sub is doing in keys

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i'm tilted

mint swift
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KEK

tribal blade
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i missed the entire thing

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i fucking hate twitch

mint swift
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Proph you only a sub player?

tribal blade
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nah i play some sin too in keys

mint swift
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Fair I’m just Assa en

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*rn

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Now I’m at 3K Assa maybe I can go for 3K sub

tribal blade
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sin IO

mint swift
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Pug or groups

tribal blade
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but i stopped pushing

mint swift
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Fair

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I was so proud of my 3K and everyone here has more hahah

alpine wraith
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dont worry i dont even have 2.6

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cba

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brrrrr

mint swift
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lol

tribal blade
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everyone starts somewhere! i was not that great until i met a team that wanted a rogue to push with in S2 SL

mint swift
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Tbh I usually just go for 2.5K so I’m happy I got this high

tribal blade
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and from there i kept at it

mint swift
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Oh I’m full pug

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P much

tribal blade
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i mostly pug too

mint swift
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Like my highest scoring key was a pug

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14 SoB

tribal blade
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pugging title is miserable

mint swift
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Yea :(

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Ofc if I had a team it would be fun

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But I don’t think I can commit

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Especially with uni and work atm

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Next up you’ll say you go to uni

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Or smth

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Or work 7 days a week 10 hours a day

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Aha

tribal blade
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it's REALLY hard to find a set group to run keys with

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it's kinda crazy how difficult it is to get a group going

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most people will jump ship at the first sign of trouble

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grass is greener mentality

mint swift
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Fair

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Tbh I’m top 5 in my guild so I’m happy

tribal blade
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i think getting 3k this season (at least earlier on) was already a good achievement

mint swift
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Ye :D

tribal blade
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but yeah just keep climbing, you never know where your ceiling is until you really push it 😉

mint swift
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True

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Thing is idk if I should keep climbing
I mean I could try? Big break is coming up

tribal blade
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only do it if you feel up for it

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don't force it

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i'm gonna be real, i know quite a few people who hard push keys all day every day, and they're not exactly the happiest people in the world haha

mint swift
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True

tribal blade
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but pushing keys gives you so many advantages

mint swift
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I mean
As a legend once said
People raid for FUN? Do you think me looking at my logs makes me happy?
-Barny64

tribal blade
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it makes you realize the importance of cleaning up game play, looking into min maxing rotations, changing your set up to be more optimal

mint swift
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At least I belive that’s what she said

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Tbh

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I think in raid so far I’m pretty good

tribal blade
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nice!

mint swift
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Sadly our guild is casual and lacking players

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Also we have a lot of connection issues

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Like we only usually get one raid mythic day a week atm

tribal blade
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oh damn that blows

mint swift
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Sometimes I’m confused why I don’t do that good in M+

mint swift
# tribal blade oh damn that blows

Yea
Like one week we had a whole hour taken away due to people not being able to log on
Last wed we just had a lot of people absence, like our MT is stuck in bed

tribal blade
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so we never have to call off raid for absences

mint swift
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We have like 18 people ish

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Are recruiting atm tho

tribal blade
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ahh ok so not even 20, that's rough

mint swift
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Yea

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Also

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How eh are these stats

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For sub

tribal blade
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haste is way too high

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you want a lot more vers

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and more mast too

mint swift
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You could say that for Assa too, but it keeps saying to get haste

tribal blade
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crit is also a bit high

mint swift
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Yeye

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It is Assa gear

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So it won’t be optimal for sub

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At least I got a lot of Amat

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*mast

tribal blade
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just for reference these are my stats unbuffed

junior prawn
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You dont wanna use skardyn on sub or you will want to treat it as 3min cd trinket

mint swift
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I remember sub being like mass stack mas and vers

tribal blade
mint swift
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Cause Assa you just BIND to DM

junior prawn
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well its 1.50 cds on Shadowblades and Flagelation

mint swift
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Ohhh

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Fair

tribal blade
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yeah transmitter REALLY good on sub

mint swift
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That sucks

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I mean I can still prolly do ok damage as sub?

junior prawn
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Yes

mint swift
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Just nowhere near as good Assa dps

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But I feel like that’s also due to power level of the two sprca

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*specs

junior prawn
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its ok assass will get shot next season 😔

hazy breach
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City, dawn, mists and siege are all fine

mint swift
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Fair, sub has better ST right

hazy breach
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And the second half of nw sub is way better

hazy breach
mint swift
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Fair

tribal blade
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that's the main advantage sub has over sin, is on pure ST the damage is miles better

mint swift
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So Assa is better on more aoe focused dungeons and comps with ST classes and Sub is better on ST dungeons and/or more aoe focused comps

hazy breach
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For example last boss of nw youd be struggling to get over 1m, whereas on sub you can easily do 1.3-1.4m. Now thats obv a scuffed boss but still

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Its not like subs aoe is bad

mint swift
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Yea

hazy breach
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Its just bursty

mint swift
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Fuck that boss btw

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Yea
Compared to Assa

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Well Assa has burst

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But you know what I mean

tribal blade
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another positive sub has is defensive value

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you just passively have around +10% DR over sin because of vers

mint swift
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Tbf

tribal blade
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fade to nothing from dance gives you another 10%

mint swift
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Assa already has good defensives

tribal blade
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sub is noticably better

mint swift
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Fair

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God this makes me wanna play wow, but Tuesdays are always the longest

sly shore
mint swift
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I don’t wanna just ditch my raid group though

alpine wraith
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yea but getting railed with the boys does not hit the same

mint swift
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On my main

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Like we already have low people
I don’t wanna just say “I’m not gonna raid today I’ll just do it w pugs”

vale pine
mint swift
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Tbh I most likely won’t gear for sub as I enjoy Assa atm

vale pine
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thats fine, you can do keys without optimal gear on sub too

mint swift
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Yuh

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If I play it right it should be good

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Excited for next semester tbf
No day has me stay at uni for more than 5 hours

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And only at uni 3 days a week

round latch
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wishes for courage,strength and a strong mind ofc

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😂

glacial tartan
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So I've started doing some M0 runs finally and I was curious about the rotation. If your Vanish is on CD, how do you approach your opener? Do you instead go into Shadow Dance/Symbol of Death earlier?

hazy breach
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You generally already have slice and dice up in keys

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So you dont need the eviscerate before the rupture

short radish
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and you get snd up anyway

glacial tartan
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Ahh okay that makes sense.

tribal blade
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if you want you can get snd up as the tank is gathering

short radish
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can you still do the snd pre dungeon?

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or did they nerf that with the outlaw nerf

hazy breach
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It doesnt really matter either way, its just one eviscerate

short radish
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but muh prepull

glacial tartan
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So with that though. Is it better to just do your full opener on trash mobs or should you be holding some CDs like Flagellation?

short radish
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full send

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never hold

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on opener

round latch
tribal blade
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just send as stuff comes up so long as what you're fighting will live the majority of your cd's use

short radish
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!wa

wicked joltBOT
glacial tartan
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Just like with tanking, it definitely feels hard to gauge the rotation sometimes in M0.

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Just with how quickly things die.

short radish
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low keys do be like that

tribal blade
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yeah there's no way to use cds well in M0s when everything dies instantly

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you just gotta press your cds and accept the fact that you're kinda wasting them

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if you try to wait for a good moment to use em, you're gonna be sitting on them for long periods of time

glacial tartan
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I had to break that habit with learning to tank. When I got to M8s and M9s I was holding Shield Wall too much and Avatar.

tribal blade
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one of the main problems a lot of people have in M+ is overthinking their cds

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and holding too much

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i knew a hunter who i did a mechagon workshop with 1 time, and she always had sus damage, and then i found out on the last boss she was literally holding her 2 min cd for the entire 1st phase of the boss so she could have it ready for P2 with lust

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when in reality P1 was long enough where she was basically losing an entire cast

spark tusk
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To be fair the calculation matters for some specs more than others

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Like for sub I feel you are free to just go

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Honestly most cases you should always just go anyways

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Assa is just a pia because your cds are target based not player based

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so it's possible to pick a target that wastes the entire cd

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whereas with sub there's no risk of that

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you just go

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and vibe

tribal blade
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the nice thing about sin is at least you can spec into sudden demise

glacial tartan
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So out of curiosity, does Sub do more single target than Assa?

tribal blade
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and you kinda recover some dmg

spark tusk
hazy breach
tribal blade
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i figured out the 1st pull of SV

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even on a 15 sending deathmark and KB is kinda pointless

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if you're in a 3 dps comp

glacial tartan
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If that's the case, what makes Assa better in M+ Dungeons over Sub? AoE?

tribal blade
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sin does massive aoe

spark tusk
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large Aoe + iron wire are what ass has that sub does not

tribal blade
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and insane prio

spark tusk
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yeah and the prio

tribal blade
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you'll always be on top of the prio mob dmg in every key as sin

glacial tartan
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That makes me think of people using Starfall.. it's honestly a nightmare if I don't place an aoe down ahead of time..

haughty mural
spark tusk
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unless I'm mistaken?

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If you flag a target and it immediately dies, you can still gain stacks right?

vale pine
spark tusk
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Ah ok

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at least you don't lose damage from not attacking it specifically

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you can just cast on a target that will live than swap targets

alpine wraith
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if target dies you get 10 stacks so only need to survive to 20 kinda

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you do lose the time tho

haughty mural
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yup

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a little thing i hate about flag

glad raven
short radish
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do we use nightly/weekly/latest for raidbots on sub?

glacial tartan
glad raven
vale pine
# spark tusk Ah ok

basically, you get the buff with whatever stacks you have if the target dies, which can be bad if its low

glacial tartan
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So is it best to put Flag on a strong enemy that you know will be the last to die?

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So like the Golems in Stonevault I guess as an example

glad raven
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Just faze a target and send it into a big boi

tribal blade
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i'd like to see flag lashes do actual damage again

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so we get some big prio dam during cds

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that would be a good talent to get, replace some shitter talent we currently have with OBE

alpine wraith
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lashing scars was fire yea

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good times

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obedience did not do shite for dmg tho

tribal blade
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plus the obe effect would be terrible on sub since it would desync flag and blades

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after all the suffering we went through to finally have em synced

lilac stag
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Very synced HOLY

alpine wraith
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we would sync our faces to the table

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if that happened again

lilac stag
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but blades back to 20 you cowards

alpine wraith
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every day i remember they made blades not work with tornado

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because fuck you

glacial tartan
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So probably a dumb question and I'm sorry for it, but Shadowstrike is what generates Flawless Form because of enemies being fazed right? Also, sorry for all the questions x3

alpine wraith
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it is unseen blade

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it can just proc from strike or backstab

tribal blade
glacial tartan
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Thank you. Just the way it was worded made me think it was the fazed proc.

short radish
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!fuu

wicked joltBOT
vale pine
scarlet heath
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lashing something and then sending bunch of finishers into it and seeing big dam was pretty dope

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probably way too broken with current SBlades tho

hazy breach
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Should reduce the duration to 18 or 20 seconds and buff the damage to compensate Surebud

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The 24s duration is very silly when blades is 16 and dance is 8

haughty mural
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that really was a headscratcher

lilac stag
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multiples of 8

hazy breach
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It makes perfect sense from a "keep the uptime the same as before" pov

lilac stag
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EZclap

leaden prairie
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Why is flagellation icon a sword

hazy breach
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Flag cd wasnt changed so it stays the same.
Blades duration was lowered by 25% to compensate for the 25% reduction in cooldown

leaden prairie
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Isn't flagellation supposed to be whipping people with a whip

spark tusk
uneven fern
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when are they adding a whip class

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never probably but it would have cool animations

spark tusk
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They'd give that class cool animations and sectec will remain as is dead

leaden prairie
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i asked this yesterday, kieron answered me and i then forgot about it, but why could we fit 2 st in cds in df doing it that way, but now cant

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i dont remembre what changed

lilac stag
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Blades is 16 secs. Dance CDR is low

edgy zenith
fallow nimbus
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Also dust reduced sectec by 30 sec

vestal escarp
fallow nimbus
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You want to cover as much of blades with dance as you can

chilly sage
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Any1 knows if Cloak can make the flame adds change target in grim batol?

fallow nimbus
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They switch

vestal escarp
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They switch, focus tank, explode instantly and depleto

keen dome
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one weird trick that your tank hates.

vestal escarp
#

Because in this game

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Cos can clear some focus

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Not all

keen dome
#

I did that keya while back with a buddy, and he said "don't blind them" just as I blinded them. The rest of this sentence "because it will wipe us" but he didn't need to explain that part..

vestal escarp
fallow nimbus
#

Maybe the next step for sub is full bugfixes, sectec working with blades and reworked talents like wm to work with all builders

leaden prairie
hazy breach
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But now that transmitter and blades are 15/16 seconds waiting 3 globals inbetween your dances aint a thing

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But also current 4p makes sectech first not nearly as bad

hazy breach
fallow nimbus
#

Next tier is reversed, omega buffed sectec kekw

haughty mural
#

2pc: SecTec clones work with blades ?

vestal escarp
#

The guy that told me was playin the stack strat

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And his guess was about them instant fixing on tank and going off

hazy breach
#

Ye im not certain either, i just remember i should never press cloak and havent done it kek

vestal escarp
#

Theres nothing to cos on valiona if you're playing that strat anyway

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Nados are non existing and knockback does not that much

hazy breach
#

Saves me having to feint the knockback Cheesin

leaden prairie
#

Knockback kinda hit for a lot

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I'm glad we are imune to shit like this with feint

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But you just get one shot from it even in like 15 I think

vale pine
#

feint is rly good

bleak wind
#

I would much rather have it cost no energy and be on the gcd though

vestal escarp
#

Erm

vale pine
#

agree, i would love for it to be energy free

hazy breach
#

I mean right now its practically free if youre in cds

vale pine
#

fair point

strange chasm
#

A lot of classes would give up a lot to have feint even with the energy cost lol

leaden prairie
#

wild take

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cooked take

bleak wind
#

naah

leaden prairie
#

im blocking you actually

bleak wind
#

you play outlaw its different there

leaden prairie
#

not really lol

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all 3 specs have infinite energy during cds

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outside of cds gcd or energy is wya less relevant anywya

bleak wind
#

I've had situations where I've missed a gcd in dance because of it

haughty mural
#

why not both pepe_nice

strange chasm
bleak wind
#

ye but the point was you still missed a gcd even though feint is not on it

strange chasm
#

Yes but you lived

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If you had to press feint chances are you needed to in order to live

bleak wind
#

ye I am not questioning how strong it is

alpine wraith
#

in dance you can use evasion better

vestal escarp
bleak wind
#

just that it can still 'feel' bad to press

glacial tartan
#

Realistically to me just from a DPS perspective WoW or not, it off the GCD is better. Besides, survivability is better than DPSing in this case if you have to hit Feint over something else.

leaden prairie
#

if it was on the gcd

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you would always miss a gcd

fair stump
#

i don't know why does it cost that much energy

strange chasm
fair stump
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Other classes's defensives do not cost resources

leaden prairie
#

we can press ours too often

bleak wind
#

idk, not the biggest fan of energy cost defensive, cooked take perhaps

strange chasm
#

Other classes don't have feint lol

vestal escarp
#

And they're on a 2 min cd Laughge

hazy breach
#

Other classes defensives typically have cooldowns

leaden prairie
#

so it kinda have to have a cost

strange chasm
#

Feint is absurdly strong

leaden prairie
#

otherwise its kinda a press on cd thing almost

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for outlaw it would be for example

haughty mural
#

feint is reaaaaaally good

hazy breach
#

I personally prefer both energy and gcd and keep feint as a strong defensive. The more accessible they make it the more likely it is that theyll need to nerf it

vestal escarp
#

The second charge was gamechanging

bleak wind
vestal escarp
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One charge alone has competitors

strange chasm
#

2 charges and no gcd

tulip gorge
#

don't you dare touch rogue defensives

strange chasm
#

We have been eating so good

vestal escarp
#

Like spell reflect

leaden prairie
#

It's just a limiter

fair stump
#

Maybe this was purely for pvp, but I remember hunter's feign death having a dmg reduction for a few seconds after casting

haughty mural
#

we have a lower healthpool to make up for it

leaden prairie
#

I think the balancing part of feint is just how it's a niche defensive

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That doesn't work on everything

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So you are strong on certain stuffs

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And weak on others

tulip gorge
#

but elusiveness

fair stump
#

You don't play cheat death?

leaden prairie
#

Well elus is still only 20%

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And you give up cheat

tulip gorge
#

I play elusiveness in m+ peeposhrug

leaden prairie
#

Which is arguably the best defensive in the game

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Ye everyone does

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But the cost is quite big

hazy breach
#

If it didnt have any cost we would just be using it all the time

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Thus it would need to be weaker

leaden prairie
#

Ye

tulip gorge
#

if you get targeted by a dot or something and you don't have cloak you are just screwed

leaden prairie
#

I agree with that but

fair stump
#

õ_õ you play elusiveness in M+?

leaden prairie
#

As long as there is a cost

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Even the slightest cost

glacial tartan
#

Where would you even take elusive over Cheat Death?

leaden prairie
#

We are safe of that to me

vestal escarp
haughty mural
tulip gorge
glacial tartan
#

I'm not good enough for that yet😂

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But touche

leaden prairie
#

elus is useless in low keys

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dw abotu it

vestal escarp
#

Bro got mogged

haughty mural
#

okay zac HOLY

leaden prairie
#

am i wrong

bleak wind
#

it feels like you already need elusivness in 10s though

haughty mural
#

those shots

leaden prairie
#

what does elus do when nothing does damage

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While cheat can prevent mistakes

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Like you are going. To take élus

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But then never press defs

alpine wraith
#

elus is a skill check

leaden prairie
#

Cause you don't need defs anyway

#

What's the point

alpine wraith
#

but dont worry bozos will make more than 1 mistake per 6 mins

fair stump
#

me not pressing evasion

alpine wraith
#

then die every time after

tulip gorge
#

what's the point in taking cheat death if you are never proccing it in low keys

alpine wraith
#

with elu at least they can get saved more than once every 6 mins if they remember to press one of 2 buttons

leaden prairie
#

i miss playing like a psychopath with cheat tho

leaden prairie
hazy breach
fair stump
#

In which instances do you guys press evasion?

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Aside from getting hit by normal attack

vestal escarp
#

Whats the point of yoloing id you can only do it once per 6 min

hazy breach
#

The mistake prevention of cheat is way more valueable than people here give it credit for

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I would not really recommend elusiveness until like 13/14s

vestal escarp
fair stump
hazy breach
#

Especially considering that default feint works on most dangerous things this season

vestal escarp
hazy breach
#

And sub is already inherently tanky af

vestal escarp
#

If you mean the dodge effect

leaden prairie
#

nerf sub

vestal escarp
#

You can dodge a few mechanics in this rotation

bleak wind
glacial tartan
#

My goal right now is to just get 2k rating as a Sub. 13/14s are not in my sight lol.

vestal escarp
fair stump
vestal escarp
#

No get fucked

leaden prairie
#

ok

hazy breach
#

So quite niche

vestal escarp
#

Downtime gives you a stacking dmg amp buff you can pop with AR

fair stump
#

You can evade those?

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Damn, I've gotten killed due to that throw knife and throw flesh

leaden prairie
#

Frontal first boss nw

fair stump
#

Good to know

fair stump
#

You can evade that shit? I just feinted

leaden prairie
#

Ya

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You can also cloak it last seconde

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You can evasion dot poison application from spiders in ara Kara first area

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And the jumps from the flying spiders in arakara

vestal escarp
#

Thats new for me

leaden prairie
#

Noob

vestal escarp
leaden prairie
#

In siege you can evasion the guys that throw powder shot or whatever the name is

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They are first boss and after first boss

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You can also evasion bomb throw before first boss

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You can also evasion the shooters in last area

hazy breach
#

The shooters are just a frontal nowadays though arent they

glacial tartan
leaden prairie
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Kinda kinda not

glacial tartan
#

There are a few that don't

leaden prairie
#

They will targets people that are in front of them

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No one pull those anyway

hazy breach
#

Idk i havent played them kek

glacial tartan
#

X3 I only know from tanking it to be fair.

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Also, I'm assuming there is a Weak Aura for evasion?

leaden prairie
#

I think evasion is the most useful in nw

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Since you can evasion all the throw knifes

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And first boss frontal

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It's a lot

hazy breach
#

I did a whole writeup on a per-dungeon basis on what to evasion/feint/cloak/vanish in the m+ tips section of icy veins

hazy breach
#

But in theory if everybody wasnt playing prot pala that would be good

glacial tartan
#

Prot Pal PlayDeadYesItsDead

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Prot War 2ez

hazy breach
#

Prot war can intervene, but thats only for 6 out of the 8 seconds Cheesin

fair stump
#

Oh, game up

glacial tartan
#

At least you get a Magic Bubble.

#

To be honest, out of all the dungeons I've been learning and running, NW by far as a Prot War has been the roughest

fair stump
#

wrong spec, Eleem

hazy breach
#

Thats not the part i was referring to

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But ye mb didnt update that one

uneven fern
glacial tartan
#

So which dungeon in M+ as a Sub is going to be the hardest to run?

hazy breach
#

I just removed that entire paragraph Surebud

fair stump
#

On the affixes part there's another garrote mention

#

Damn mythic bis ring or mythic pants

#

hmm

glacial tartan
#

I know for melee, some dungeons can be much harder to be consistent than others.

glacial tartan
#

And to be honest I don't know really much about dps mechanics for bosses in current M+ rotations.

glacial tartan
hazy breach
#

Idk wouldnt really say theres any dungeons thats extra difficult as a rogue specifically

alpine wraith
#

motherlode will be

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we get 2 shot by almost everything if they dont omeganerf it kek

hazy breach
#

If anything the hardest part about being a rogue is convincing your paladin tanks to not skip the first 3 mobs of grim batol with shroud

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Because theyll always pull the entire dungeon with their shield if you do

keen dome
#

"Oh, whoops. Forgot to push Shroud. Darn. Guess we're fighting them"

lilac stag
#

Just cancel it

keen dome
lilac stag
#

blame a bug

glacial tartan
#

I hate the pure throught of this

keen dome
#

Honestly, a lotta DPS mindlessly run into mobs with shroud anyway so there's a good chance it resolves itself without you doing anything.

hazy breach
#

Well you'd sap

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So that shouldnt happen

keen dome
#

Someone will find a way.

alpine wraith
#

if you go through a mob it will aggro even if sapped

keen dome
#

same if someone walked through me, tbh

alpine wraith
#

if they are krangled enoughj

glacial tartan
#

That's.. wild

alpine wraith
#

they have to really go and touch their chest then butt tho

#

illegal palpation

keen dome
#

I saw it a lot during DF S3 where people would want you to shroud skip the final tunnel in uh.. the first half of the mega dungeon.

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Someone would just run through a mob and get sent to the shadowrealm

alpine wraith
#

motherlode will be funny for that again

keen dome
#

And then they'd go "Rogue????" or something

alpine wraith
#

on the part after azerokk where all pulls are caner incarnate

keen dome
#

I had someone do it in Siege recently on the shooter pack which was like, impressive to do.

alpine wraith
#

that you want to skip

hazy breach
#

Theyre absolutely going to change motherlode

alpine wraith
#

the shooter pack the classic is slipping in a banana

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then using an ability

leaden prairie
keen dome
leaden prairie
#

if you arent you are trolling

glacial tartan
#

I keep hearing that the Motherload is an atrocious dungeon

keen dome
#

they should add the bananas to more dungeons. banana affix.

alpine wraith
#

it is not atrocious

#

but it can go from super easy

upbeat sorrel
alpine wraith
#

to ball breaking

keen dome
#

just rains bananas you slip on from the sky (eenmies too)

upbeat sorrel
#

we go socket agen??

alpine wraith
#

in 2 secs

#

like many mechanics are insta wipes

spark tusk
alpine wraith
#

i hate the bananas tbh

#

mostly because tanks also dont move

sullen hare
#

It's another one of those dungeons where it's a pug nightmare tbh that's all

keen dome
#

make enemies slip up over them using the comedy sound effect

spark tusk
#

Every crit dealt has a chance to knock you down and back 5 yards, including enemies

glacial tartan
spark tusk
#

and every knockback plays banana peel sound

umbral sundial
#

Hey is learning subtelty rotation a lot harder than sin you say? I wanna try sub *out in Mythic today

#

(we are stuck on broodtwister)

sullen hare
#

Not harder just different

hazy breach
#

Overall motherlode was fine, it just has some incredibly overtuned trash near the end so people were forced to either deathskip or shroud through most of it

keen dome
#

affix that spawns an escort quest randomly.

umbral sundial
#

Oh also I mispoke I meant to say "I want to try out Sub today"

sullen hare
#

I figured as much.

hazy breach
#

But theyll presumably tune it a bit differently this time around, just like how theyve done with other dungeons

keen dome
#

I'm excited for workshop

glacial tartan
#

I'm kind of excited to run it though, I've not really played older content yet

sullen hare
#

Sub and sin play incredibly differently so you may want to crash some lower keys if you plan to take it to mythic raid tonight

alpine wraith
#

you mean everything is going well

#

then machinist wipes you 4 times

#

coggers

sullen hare
#

Everything is fine until summertime spends 5 minutes getting zapped in the stealth section kekw

keen dome
#

affix that spawns tavian. the entire party has 10 seconds to pet him and type "you are a good boy, yes you are" and if you do he'll charge through all mobs in combat, doing massive damage.

sullen hare
#

Taivan best boy

keen dome
#

if you fail to do it uh I dunno you feel bad 'cos he didn't get petted.

sullen hare
#

Debuff: you didn't pet the best boy. You die.

#

Also as a first timer to the spec, if you're using builds that are pinned such as the death stalker aoe build eleem pinned recently I would suggest swapping out shuriken tornado for veil touched @umbral sundial

upbeat sorrel
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
upbeat sorrel
#

can i use two crafted rings

alpine wraith
#

yea

craggy quest
#

man why cant my main rogue get the juiced gear meanwhile my 2nd rogue gets all the good off pieces for sub zzzzzz

#

vers mas m+ helm last week and m+ ring this week

#

suffering from success

upbeat sorrel
#

solution is to make a 3rd rogue

craggy quest
#

i have 4 of them lol

upbeat sorrel
craggy quest
#

but yeah i should gear a 3rd one kek

#

the ret is mega juiced as well

#

sacbrood and shard back to back

fair stump
hazy breach
#

Just play one BASEDCIGAR

craggy quest
#

sadly missing two pieces for the last achiev

#

well i can potentially get it this week is rng in raid is blessed

fair stump
#

ugh, sims says to take myth pants

#

Another week without ring

glad raven
lilac stag
#

time for assa arc @tribal blade

alpine wraith
#

kek

lilac stag
#

double on use sub time

#

lfg

alpine wraith
#

it is not bad on cdr week

wooden light
#

Just played Sub for the first time in NW. Is the add in dark exile supposed to evade when you attack him because of the permanent misdirection?

#

That kind of f'ed me up lol

alpine wraith
#

if you play tricks yes

#

dont play tricks

lilac stag
alpine wraith
#

or just cancel it

alpine wraith
lilac stag
#

I took it, because why not.

#

shit i have to farm crests now. dead

wooden light
#

Can't believe it's been like that for 4 months now and not addressed lol. Anyway that's good to know

lilac stag
#

like what? tricks always works like that

#

snapping is a thing

warm marlin
#

It’s not really a bug, you’re redirecting threat to someone the mob can’t hit so it evades

lilac stag
#

you just dont have it up normally

wooden light
#

Yeah I guess you need to know that otherwise your fight is screwed

lilac stag
#

sure. But generally speaking if you have tricks up, it snaps.

#

Basic rogue dungeon stuff

#

the ahaha is your brain forgetting you have it up all the time. Trashpandascheme

vale pine
craggy quest
wooden light
#

Yeah I know it's usually what happens. I forgot I had it on (first DJ as Sub) and didn't expect a talent to break the fight

glad raven
craggy quest
#

i have everything else @ 639

lilac stag
# vale pine have fun

The funny part, I ran an OcE 10 about 40 minutes before reset. Needed one more slot for a socket. Hahah

#

so much for my hole

wooden light
#

In M+, does Deathstalker have less prio target damage than trickster? Guides I have seen say to use black powder instead of evis from 2 targets (apart from when we need to reapply the mark)

hazy breach
#

Deathstalker has way more (~10-15%)

#

DS BP does like 85% of the damage of eviscerate on pure ST. So with just a few targets singular focus makes it better

lucid jackal
hazy breach
#

The gnome nootlikethis

lucid jackal
#

Ugh I wanna go orc so bad but theres an annoying bug with orc and the bloodfang set it legit makes me not want to go orc

hazy breach
#

Save for maghar after .7

#

It is a bit cringe with 2 minutes though, why couldnt there be a 3 minute one Cheesin

#

(thats not troll with haste)

lucid jackal
#

Well I'd just swap maghar now

#

I want to be off alliance

#

asap

#

I feel so alien in stormwind

solemn lance
#

are we secteching first finisher in dance always now?

hazy breach
#

Yep

solemn lance
#

is that to ensure we get a 2nd one in when cds are up?

hazy breach
#

Yes

solemn lance
#

sweet i like

strange chasm
hazy breach
#

Slightly better than regular orc ye

strange chasm
#

Better than dwarf tho?

hazy breach
#

Numerically both are already like 0.5% better than dwarf

#

Obviously the dispel is good from dwarf

#

Theyre making the maghar give one of your two highest stats instead of a random and theyre increasing the number by 30%

wooden light
hazy breach
#

Trickster bursts higher

strange chasm
#

So maghar might be better than .5%

#

I think the dispel from dwarf is so good

hazy breach
#

And trickster also has more cdr from so you get some extra dances across the key

ember hound
#

!fuu

wicked joltBOT
hazy breach
#

Main problem with deathstalker is that you kinda want to have dark brew and finality to do good constant aoe cleave with big ruptures, but then youre trading of rotten for it and youre forced to take perforated veins, which tanks your singletarget

strange chasm
#

Trickster is as best as sub as ever felt so far

vale pine
#

agree, and it feels weird to buff deathstalker this much to make it relevant

still trellis
#

also agree, played 2 of my weekly mists as sub. One as deathstalker and one as trickster, the one as trickster felt a lot more fun

hazy breach
#

I would say i preferred when we only pressed evis, but thats moreso a complaint towards FW being nothing but annoying nowadays

#

And storm consuming 2 rotten stacks i guess

still trellis
#

playing around the mark as DS somehow feels more annoying than fun in aoe, also the fact that i dont feel like shit when there are only 2 mobs makes trickster just straight up a win in my book

strange chasm
#

DS just doesn't have enough cdr

#

Trickster you are doing damage with your abilities not some dumb mark mechanic

topaz raptor
#

is singular focus really that good

#

so good that everyone always talks about it

lilac stag
#

Yes.

#

Better on Assa, but still great on sub

vestal escarp
#

On sub its not interacting with sectech

#

Also by runs i did as DS, singular on my prio targets wasnt that high on individual breakdown

#

Nothing crazy

topaz raptor
#

Yeah it seems a lot lower than you’d expect it to be

swift tinsel
#

is sectech in transmitter the same as in dance where if you don't get all hits in the buff window its scuffed or does it behave differently

vestal escarp
#

It wasnt affected by the latest plague dmg buff

swift tinsel
#

assuming its the same

vestal escarp
#

So yes just like sod, dark shadow and danse

swift tinsel
#

that's what I figured, thanks

#

ds just feels like it struggles way harder to fit both and I greatly dislike that

#

could be confounded by lag when testing + RS bug

vestal escarp
#

As eleem mentioned DS would interact better with finality and db but those are competing with stuff like death perception, inev and such which rn take the role of good enablers to make the spec feel good post 0.5

swift tinsel
#

Yeah it def seems like its a better fit for db builds which would be fine if it played well like you said

hazy breach
#

@tribal blade FeelsGoodMan Flawless fucking run FeelsGoodMan

vale pine
#

nicuu

hazy breach
#

Im atleast playing sub in the second half

#

Assa too good in the first half im afraid

strange chasm
#

Just have an enhance handle the first half

#

My 15 I did they did 11mil overall heading into 3rd boss room

hazy breach
#

I had an unholy and an elemental, with me on sub for the second half pepe_chad

strange chasm
#

I just send sub every key now. Being ass isn't going to be why I don't time a 16 or not

#

I think title will probably be all 16s

hazy breach
#

Somewhere around there ye prob

strange chasm
#

I time one GB and I shoot up to behind you on sub rankings

hazy breach
#

My sub ranking also has a 10 sv and a 12 gb kekdog

strange chasm
hazy breach
#

I think rio counts my nw as sub

strange chasm
#

Sub is fine in a lot of the dungeons I think.

#

Not sure I've felt any difference on my ass keys. Maybe stone vault I blast harder on ass

hazy breach
#

Ye mostly gb and sv

#

But gb its mostly iron wire

#

Not the damage

strange chasm
#

Cot you nuke as sub

#

Because of the damage amps and 3rd boss

hazy breach
#

Ye only the part after second boss sucks a bit, but should be way better now with bp being stronger

#

But having flag+blades on every eye

strange chasm
#

Is super duper good

hazy breach
#

Is real good

strange chasm
#

Dawn sub is better I think

#

NW ass better first half because of rupture agi increase

#

For the bosses

hazy breach
#

I dont think sub is ever better, but its def around the same in cot+dawn+mists

#

Damagewise

#

But i also like sub more, and being tanky is nice

vale pine
#

assassiantion is just extremely strong tuned

strange chasm
#

I don't think the line between the 2 is as crazy as it was start of season

#

Like numerically ass isn't 20-50% better

hazy breach
#

It hasnt been far behind since .5

strange chasm
#

Like it's what maybe 5% behind?

#

And even then in my 15-16s stuff still dies fast

vestal escarp
#

even if the gap was higher, not feeling like shit playing full ST > sin

strange chasm
#

Sub having almost identical ST while still being able to do AOE is insanely fun

vale pine
#

it still feels weird because sub was usually the funnel spec, but dracthyr_shrug sub is fun to play so whatever

strange chasm
#

Is there a way to see the numerical difference

#

Like sub cannot be that far behind on prio

vale pine
#

you can sim on sub with priority_rotation=1

#

or just sim regular

lilac stag
#

It slaps sub around as far as prio.

vestal escarp
#

is assa talented into scent?

#

shouldnt be for ovi

lilac stag
#

No

#

Why use rupture as a dot spec. OMEGAKEKW

hazy breach
lilac stag
#

3.2m vs 2.7m overall. lulz

#

You get a splatter. You get a splatter. YOU GET A SPLATTER.

timid pulsar
#

!wa

wicked joltBOT
willow pawn
#

boss damage is cut by at least 30 seconds to a minute and 30 seconds playing Sub

#

in M+

#

doing 900k dps on ST bosses as assa with an aug is nasty work

woeful barn
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I’ve acquired DS mark for nameplate. Next mission is to acquire DS mark next to discord name.

formal notch
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hey everyone iam trying to relearn the basics for sublety as a lot has changed since the patch. do we still have as much down time outside of our cooldown windows and waiting for energy?

woeful barn
woeful barn
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Ooo ty

woeful barn
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It’s been updated that’s cool

formal notch
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@hazy breach iam figuring the stuff out at the cleave dummy's right now but it seems that during symbols/shadow dance window i use shadowstrike in multitarget untill it fades i go back to building with shuriken right?

hazy breach
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Yes

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Assuming youre playing trickster

formal notch
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yeah i am trying that out now

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working arround shuriken tornado seems a bit off now tough

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and not using black powder 😮

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which one would you recon is easier to play between trickster and DS if you're used to the shadowdance build we had in season 1 and 2 in DF?

hazy breach
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You can just not use tornado

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But technically you should BP at 5 or more

formal notch
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oh damn i tought BP sucked

hazy breach
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But you also need to storm once with rotten up to proc fw for it

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Ye it sucked

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Then it got buffed by 35%, then it got buffed by 20%

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And now it doesnt suck

formal notch
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gotta place that back on my bar again then lol

formal notch
hazy breach
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You just swap nado for veiltouched

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Nothing else

formal notch
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Goat

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thanks a lot ❤️

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two questions last how different are trickster and DS between gameplay? and is the full refund of combo points at random at deeper strat still a thing?

hazy breach
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So for example if you get 7 sht 0.6s after eviscerating it can still give you a refund

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Whereas without that bug it would only refund exactly when you press eviscerate

formal notch
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man its hard to utilize that tough

hazy breach
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Ye

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The bugshould just get fixed

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But shrugeg

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But if you track your sht stacks you'd know when the regular refunds happen atleast. or you can use one of the weakauras that play a sound whenever you get the refund

mint swift
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Tried the sub rota on dummies it feels a lot more simple than i remember

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Gonna chill w this build

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Anything i should chabnge

alpine wraith
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if that is for m+

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tfd is way better than wm

shrewd lantern
alpine wraith
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depends assa likely has used cds on mobs and wont get more than 1 rotation on bosses

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as sub you get 2 or so most of the time

shrewd lantern
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Yeah really depends

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unless you just used cds on a mob assa shouldnt be doing sub 1mil with an aug

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They'll come up mid boss if you used them a bit before

willow pawn
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Assa not doing more than 1 - 1.1mil on pure ST in m+ bosses. And you can be Michael Phelps, pooling won’t save you either

shrewd lantern
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Do you have druid/sham buff?

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Might be low ilvl if you aren't doing a 1mil with cds

willow pawn
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Just sham but he gets the PI as well. Plus in 17s bosses last long enough

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You can maybe hit around 1.1 with ER

shrewd lantern
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playing ER in keys 💀

willow pawn
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But you sacrifice MA being prolonged

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When I mean ER, I mean the second node

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Starts with an R

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I don’t remember the talent name

shrewd lantern
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yeah the supercharger node

willow pawn
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Playable in DV

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DB

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Lose some AoE but whatever

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Bosses die faster

shrewd lantern
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💀

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Sub 100% has better st though, which is fine.

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Specs having downsides is acceptable

fallow nimbus
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11.1 will fix assa m+ st

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For sub it's another bp buff and more plague dmg autohits for DS